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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2126
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 9:36 am: | 
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http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/patch_8g1165.html
Quote:Maxxuss Patches for Mac OS X 10.4.4 8G1165 x86
This is a preliminary release of my Patch Solution for the official Mac OS X on the Intel platform. Consider it a work-in-progess for now. Ultimately, it would allow you to run this Mac OS X release on a generic x86 computer (SSE2 required).
There's still a lot of work to do, like
* support for AMD CPUs,
* support for SSE2-only CPUs,
* a proper installation procedure.
However, if you like to play around, this will get you started.
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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2127
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 9:46 am: |
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LOL!
apparently Apple has put a hidden message to hackers in the hardware restrictions of OS X.
Maxxuss found that a few pieces of Mac OS X search for a secret message in "commpage" which gets decrypted via the TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
"Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined; his existing OS was so blind, he'd do better to pirate; an OS that ran great; but found his hardware declined. Please don't steal Mac OS! Really, that's way uncool. (C) Apple Computer, Inc."
The OS x86 Project has crafted a poem in response,
"Rime of the Ancient Hacker; There once was a hacker named Maxxuss; who Steve did not think was a genius. But Steve pondered awhile, grabbed the phone with a smile, and said "Bill, there’s a thing to discuss..." |
Eponymous
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Username: Eponymous
Post Number: 100
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 7:16 pm: |
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I bet on Steve to put in hardware restrictions. No hardware, no Apple. |
TarPit Coder
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Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 27
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 9:10 am: |
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If Apple is gonna make the break into a larger market they better do it soon before MP3s come free with cereal.
In a business sense I think Apple is probably best off keeping OSX only on Mac hardware. I think it's about the only *reason* for buying a Mac. If that puppy can be run on any x86 box they are going to have the ground eaten out from under them. Actually, thinking about it they'll also get the ground eaten out from above them.. I guess that's attackers from the skies! You can sure build up a way gruntier box than commodity apple hardware - which if your a professional who's cpu bound becomes really attractive - remember the apple clones - faster than a mac and cheaper - oh and uses standard parts - easier to upgrade... Steve killed that pretty quickly.
It's lots like the 'attack of the killer micros' in the 80's and 90's wiping out the Mini guys. This would be the 'attack of the commodity hardware' or 'attack of the Dells'.
There are two schools of thought on surviving that:
1) Go all commodity and do it properly.
2) Stay entirely proprietary.
If you straddle the fence you better consider it electrified - any companies who didn't pick one route ended up fracturing and burning cash at prodigious rates.
Still if anyone can negotiate that I'd say Steve can. It's cool and exciting to watch, and personally I hope Apple survives and prospers because a software MONO-CULTURE is both *dangerous* and *boring*
--Tarp
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AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1197
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:19 pm: |
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I think Apple generally makes exceptionally designed hardware. |
TarPit Coder
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Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 29
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:31 am: |
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The industrial design is often nice - but the internals I don't think are all that amazing - compared to say an SGI or a SUN or even a well done PC.
The sad bit is that even if they were better - that's such a tough road to walk. I used to use a Wang PC and Wang 286 about 15 years ago. They were *really* nice machines. Wang had fixed the character set font, and given a wonderful keyboard with a bazillion keys on it. The VGA monitor was super crisp and sharp on the 286 and the Monochrome monitor was amazing. They went the way of the dodo...(Not really just their PC's probably) Like so many other nice bits of hardware:
SGI Indy - Great sexy machine
SGI O2 - Great sexy machine
Sun Sparcstations - I would love another Pizzabox machine like my Sparcstation 1 with it's then Huge 20 inch ECL mono monitor.
I really do hope apple survives - It's just really hard to convince someone to go for Apple if they really care about performance and upgradeability. If you take 3D cards - is there any SLI or Crossfire (Use 2 similiar video cards in one machine and pretty much double your performance?)
--Tarp |
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